A bee hotel is a great way of providing shelter and even breeding spaces for beneficial insects. You want to make sure you are putting the bee hotel in the ideal spot, so getting the position and ...

Some of us may not be huge fans of buzzing bees but they play a crucial role in food and plant production and are extremely beneficial to the ecosystem. If you’d like to attract more pollinators to ...

We think of bees as hive creatures with a nasty sting. But not all bees live in hives or have such an aggressive approach to self-defense. In fact, the great majority of native bee species live a ...

Big Ideas for Small Spaces: Creative Ideas and 30 Projects for Balconies, Roof Gardens, Windowsills and Terraces (Firefly Books, 2017), by Kay Maguire and Tony Woods, introduce new and exciting ways ...

Show kids the importance of bee habitats like flower patches. Help provide a safe place for the buzzers—which pollinate an estimated one-third of the food we eat—by building a bee hotel near this ...

Many of these so-called “solitary bees,” which include mason bees, leafcutter bees, and carder bees, look more like flying ants than fuzzy yellow bees, but they’re valuable pollinators just the same.